Dough cutter or slicer.



PATENTED MAR. 10, 1903.

E. P. MiissNER. DOUGH CUTTER 0R SLICER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 5, 1902.

H0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES P TENT i Fries.

ERNST P. M6ssNER, F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYL ANIA.

cocci-'1CUTTER oneness,

Y srnolrrchrronro m of as ments 722,452, dated march 10,1903. sppliciitloi illedhuguat 5. 190 Serial in. usage: on mam Pennsylvania, have invented new. and useful. Improvements in Dough Cutters or Sl icers,-of.

which the following is a specification. My invention consists of a device for cut: ting and slicing dough into pieces of uniform size and'in a convenient and rapid manner,

the construction of parts being hereinafter described,- and the novel features of the same pointed out in the' claims. j

Figure 1 represents a front elevation of a dough cutter or slicer embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 represents a top or plan view thereof. Fig. 3 represents a transverseveritical section on linen; as, Fig. 2.

Similar letters of referenceindicatecorre-' sponding'p'arts in the figures.

nuts G on said rods are tightened. The

nectedwith the ends of the head (3 and passed Referring to thedrawings, A designates the bed or base of the device, and B designatescolumnsor standards rising from the ends thereof.

C designates a head the ends of which are formed with tongues D, which-are freely 'fitted in the vertically-extending openings E in the standards B, whereby said head may be lowered and raised and guided in its motions on said standards B. I

F designates a series of ,blades or cutters which extend in vertical direction parallel to, each other and are connected orcoupled by the screw-rods G, which are passed through openings in the upperends of said blades. In-

terposed between said blades and fitted on said rods are the sleeves H, which serve to space the blades and brace the same when the blades are suspended from and connected with the heads 0 by means of the clamps J which consist of-cross-bars interposed between adjacent blades and having the relative sleeves H restedon-the ends thereof. 1 Bolts K are passedthrough said bars and said head 0 and tightened by the nuts L, whereby the blades are firmly connected with the head 0.

M designates cords or chains which are con- .to raise the blades and retain position. I I I The operation is as follows: A tray Q is. placed-on the-bed A and a piece of dough standards B, said cords or chains being also connectedwith the upper ends of the coiled springs P, whose lower ends are attached to the base A, the object of said springs, being them in elevated rolled or'otherwise shaped located on said tray beneath-the blades F. Downward pressure is now applied to the head 0; whereby the blades descend and cut-through the dough and dividethe same into slices of equal length.

P become operative and raise said head, and

with it the blades F, the latter rising from the of construction without departing'froin the r general spirit'of my invention, and I do not,

therefore, desire tobe limited in each case to the same.

Then the head is let go, whereby. the springs I Having thusdescribed my invention, what claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters I Patent, is-- I '1. In a cutter or slicer vof the character stated, a bed, a standardthereon, a reciprocating head, a series of spaced blades depending therefrom, a guide for said head on said standard, and means for elevating said head" consisting of a spring, 'one end of which is attached to'a. fixedmember, a flexiblejconnew said head on said standards, springs attached tosaid bed, and connections for-saidsprings withsaid head, said connections passing over pulleys onsaid standards.

- 3; In :a dough cutter or slicer, a reciprocating head, a series of spaced blades depending I from said head, couplings. for said blades, and I means for connecting said head with said time for said spring with said head, and a sup port on said standard over which said connection is passed.

blades, consistingof a cross-bar which enstated, a reciprocating head, a series of blades depending therefrom, a rod passing through said blades, spacing-sleeves on said rod between adjacent blades, a tightening-nut on said rod, and a clamp for connecting said blades with said head, consisting of a crossbar which engages with a sleeve'between adjacent blades and a'boltwh'ich. engages with said cross-bar and head and is tightened thereon.

5. A dough cutter or slicer, consisting of a series of spaced blades, rods passed through saidblades for coupling the same, a reciprocating head, means for connecting said blades with said head, a base, standards rising from said base, tongues on said head guided in said standard, pulle mounted on said standards, springs connect 6. with'said base, and cords or chains cor ze'cted with'said springs passing around said p lle'ys and attached-t9 said head.

- ERNST F. MOSSNER. Witnesses: I

JOHN A. WIEDEBfJHEIM, E. HAYWARD FAIRBANKS. 

